The first day he came in and sang on 'Set Me Free,' we were like, 'OK, this is the guy.' That's why ...
DAVE KUSHNER The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time w...
RACHEL KUSHNER I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much a...
HAROLD KUSHNER Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
HAROLD KUSHNER Harper: In your experience of the world. How do people change?

Mormon Mother: Well it has...
TONY KUSHNER I like to read novels where the author seems knowledgeable, like someone you know you could walk cal...
RACHEL KUSHNER You could argue that Barack Obama faced in '08 a situation as bad as any president since the Gre...
TONY KUSHNER The only things that are really permanent are love, family, friendship, and that is a lesson. At the...
JARED KUSHNER I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any carto...
TONY KUSHNER Death takes the good, too good to stay, And leaves the bad, too bad to take away
HAROLD KUSHNER I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
HAROLD KUSHNER But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was M...
TONY KUSHNER The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a...
TONY KUSHNER Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same con...
RACHEL KUSHNER I think the art world heightens the intensity of desires for inclusion, and the humiliations of excl...
RACHEL KUSHNER I had a dream, in 1985, I believe, when a friend I'd gone to school with was sick - one of the f...
TONY KUSHNER I have crashed on a motorcycle that was going at 140mph, so I know what it feels like.
RACHEL KUSHNER I grew up in a small Southern town, and there were white people and black people. Coming to New York...
TONY KUSHNER When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the...
RACHEL KUSHNER I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not b...
RACHEL KUSHNER Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and...
RACHEL KUSHNER I was really inspired by these larger-than-life female artists like Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse and Y...
RACHEL KUSHNER Age is a convenient barometer of what a person is capable of, but it is only one.
JARED KUSHNER But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresi...
TONY KUSHNER My older brother, Jake, and I had a bohemian childhood. My parents are deeply unconventional people ...
RACHEL KUSHNER Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies.
TONY KUSHNER I'm hesitant to ever take on the crest of the veteran. So I don't know who I am to warn the ...
RACHEL KUSHNER 'The Observer's Very Short List' is another example of how the Observer Media Group offe...
JARED KUSHNER The Seventies seemed like this really open time. There were a lot of strong women characters decidin...
RACHEL KUSHNER Art is like a stock with a decent return for people in finance, and they get to feel like they are i...
RACHEL KUSHNER My father's favorite movie was 'The Dirty Dozen.'
JARED KUSHNER I think I have a great deal of self-hatred, a profound feeling of fraudulence, of being detestable a...
TONY KUSHNER I suppose I am interested in women plus anonymity plus disappearance.
RACHEL KUSHNER I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mock...
RACHEL KUSHNER Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms ...
TONY KUSHNER In fiction, there happens to be a long history of creative engagement with marginality, with the ver...
RACHEL KUSHNER It's through engagement with the world, and not separation from it, that something with meaning ...
RACHEL KUSHNER One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reade...
RACHEL KUSHNER The way that same-sex marriage should reach the federal level is that it absolutely should be decide...
TONY KUSHNER I'm going to start work on developing a series for HBO, because I'm naturally given to episo...
TONY KUSHNER You can't cover up a lot of other workplace sins by just having that proverbial foosball table. But ...
GARY KUSHNER I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to exp...
RACHEL KUSHNER I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,'_ 'tende...
RACHEL KUSHNER At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place f...
RACHEL KUSHNER I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzva...
TONY KUSHNER Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mor...
TONY KUSHNER The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.
TONY KUSHNER There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting...
TONY KUSHNER People are hysterical about the death of newspapers, and I would say, 'They're not dying; th...
JARED KUSHNER I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationshi...
TONY KUSHNER As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on peo...
TONY KUSHNER I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited....
RACHEL KUSHNER Making movies is a very different experience in a lot of ways. It's difficult when you're us...
TONY KUSHNER I'm very interested in the idea of a large group of people who come together quite suddenly, but...
RACHEL KUSHNER A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens...
TONY KUSHNER The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we'v...
TONY KUSHNER [Some of his characters were underdeveloped, to the extent that their speeches could be (and sometim...
TONY KUSHNER Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what ...
RACHEL KUSHNER I'm drawn in some strangely natural way to immersing myself in a milieu whose rules I don't ...
RACHEL KUSHNER If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, ...
TONY KUSHNER Most go to prison not on account of their irreducible uniqueness as people but because they are part...
RACHEL KUSHNER Flamethrowers have been used by many armies in many wars, including by American Marines in Korea and...
RACHEL KUSHNER Most consumer advocates recommend, for a cable company, you want to call once every six months and n...
AVIYA KUSHNER Sometimes they'll say, 'No, this is only for new customers,' but sometimes there's some bargaining r...
AVIYA KUSHNER I am not fond of lengthy descriptions of phony artworks.
RACHEL KUSHNER I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of...
TONY KUSHNER The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln'...
TONY KUSHNER You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind...
TONY KUSHNER It's no secret that Cuba is a typical Latin American culture in that it has a fair amount of hom...
RACHEL KUSHNER I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L...
RACHEL KUSHNER I spent ten years riding motorcycles.
RACHEL KUSHNER I am occasionally enraptured by Western landscape. But I don't identify that state of mind as ha...
RACHEL KUSHNER I know what it's like to go very fast on motorcycles. Those moments, they stay with you.
RACHEL KUSHNER I know a little bit about motorcycles and motorcycle riding.
RACHEL KUSHNER That it should be the questions and shape of a life, its total complexity gathered, arranged, and co...
TONY KUSHNER Belize: Hell or heaven?

[Roy indicates "Heaven" through a glance]

Belize: Lik...
TONY KUSHNER A prophet is not a man who tells the future; he is a man who tells the truth.
HAROLD KUSHNER The major Jewish dietary laws rest on a single premise: Eating meat is a moral compromise. There is ...
HAROLD KUSHNER When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something in...
HAROLD KUSHNER The ability to forgive and the ability to love are the weapons God has given us to live fully, brave...
HAROLD KUSHNER Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness
HAROLD KUSHNER I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to ...
RACHEL KUSHNER I know there are writers who like to say that every novel is hard, and it doesn't get easier. Th...
RACHEL KUSHNER As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his...
TONY KUSHNER I always thought, 'Will I go into the business, or will I not go into the business?' But whe...
JARED KUSHNER My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on he...
RACHEL KUSHNER Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one r...
RACHEL KUSHNER Proust is a huge author for me.
RACHEL KUSHNER You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights...
TONY KUSHNER I just wondered what a thing it would be...if overnight everything you owe anything to, justice, or ...
TONY KUSHNER I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
RACHEL KUSHNER I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appe...
RACHEL KUSHNER I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and...
RACHEL KUSHNER I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America&...
TONY KUSHNER Peter Kaplan was a giant.
JARED KUSHNER The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a p...
TONY KUSHNER Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to ...
RACHEL KUSHNER I got all my politics and culture and my sense of the great wide world of adults from 'Mad Magaz...
RACHEL KUSHNER A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been.
TONY KUSHNER One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topi...
RACHEL KUSHNER From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and viole...
RACHEL KUSHNER I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing e...
RACHEL KUSHNER I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really impor...
RACHEL KUSHNER I had a Stuart Davis poster growing up.
RACHEL KUSHNER Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.
TONY KUSHNER Night flight to San Francisco; chase the moon across America. God, it’s been years since I was on ...
TONY KUSHNER In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The...
TONY KUSHNER Artists complain about the art world until it starts rubbing their back, then they have their love a...
RACHEL KUSHNER When you think of the coordination this took, it's historic. When you think of the measures that wil...
HARVEY KUSHNER No one will leave Safer America or saferamerica.com without a significant amount of training into wh...
HARVEY KUSHNER When you close six embassies in a region in the world, you send a message to the world that not only...
HARVEY KUSHNER New York is the capital of the world. If you want to hit a symbol, you hit New York. It's also the c...
HARVEY KUSHNER If I can do things as an employer to make the work interesting, to make it a 'we work hard/we play h...
GARY KUSHNER It's not even necessarily so much that happy employees are good for business. It is, from [Rich Ande...
GARY KUSHNER In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming...
TONY KUSHNER I had decided that it is the fate of my generation never to have known the noble law of the sea, and...
RACHEL KUSHNER She was drunk, as everyone was, most of the time.
RACHEL KUSHNER To reduce the chances of crime in your home, put a deadbolt in your door, put a peephole in your doo...
MALCOLM KUSHNER Comic vision often leads to serious solutions.
MALCOLM KUSHNER A sense of humor means looking at things from an offbeat angle.
MALCOLM KUSHNER Who knew why they waited, I thought, understanding that I, too, had it in me to wait. To expect chan...
RACHEL KUSHNER You don't have to be religious to have a soul; everybody has one. You don't have to be religious to ...
RABBI HAROLD KUSHNER Can you see the holiness in those things you take for granted--a paved road or a washing machine? If...
RABBI HAROLD KUSHNER I no longer ask the young man's question: How far will I go? My questions are now those of the matur...
RABBI HAROLD KUSHNER Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth or power. Those rewards create almost as many pro...
RABBI HAROLD KUSHNER One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have bee...
RABBI HAROLD KUSHNER If you have been brave enough to love, and somtimes you won and sometimes you lost; if you have care...
HAROLD S. KUSHNER I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come...
RABBI HAROLD KUSHNER If that were God's plan, it's a bad bargain; I don't want to have to deal with a God like that...My ...
HAROLD S. KUSHNER If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life ...
~RABBI HAROLD KUSHNER I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come...
RABBI HAROLD S. KUSHNER In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into ...
RABBI HAROLD S. KUSHNER The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't ...
RABBI HAROLD S. KUSHNER Fun can be the dessert of our lives but never its main course.
RABBI HAROLD S. KUSHNER I do still get shocked every once in a while when I catch my reflection when I'm walking past a ...
DAVE MATTHEWS Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But...
DAVE ATTELL Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans ...
DAVE WINFIELD Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
DAVE BARRY We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admi...
DAVE BARRY Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.
DAVE ANDERSON For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.
DAVE BARRY What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another pe...
DAVE BARRY Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.
DAVE BARRY Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is ...
DAVE BARRY If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will ...
DAVE BARRY Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to a...
DAVE BARRY The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.
DAVE BARRY It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another perso...
DAVE BARRY The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.
DAVE BARRY I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bod...
DAVE BAUTISTA A lot of these kids I think are more content just to be on Facebook and the computer than they are t...
DAVE ATTELL As an individual, I think you have to find your own path. I like the simplicity and purity of Hindui...
DAVE DAVIES I had a few brushes with death, where I nearly chose to go. The final one in 1996 did it for me. I s...
DAVE GAHAN The important thing to remember is that bugs don't actually talk.
DAVE FOLEY When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood abou...
DAVE DAVIES Jazz isn't dead yet. It's the underpinning of everything in this country. Whether it's a...
DAVE BRUBECK And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, stra...
DAVE EGGERS That's country music for you - bourbon and the Bible.
DAVE HAYWOOD So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attentio...
DAVE EGGERS You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students a...
DAVE EGGERS The Left likes to think of itself as the bulwark of progressive liberal individualism, and yet it se...
DAVE BRAT Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.
DAVE BARRY A standard sitcom... is a very standard idea, like these people falling in love and living with each...
DAVE FINKEL Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to be...
DAVE MORRIS Empire Square production finishes in about a month's time, so at the moment, right now, I'm ...
DAVE ROWNTREE It is criminal to put our servicemen and women in harm's way and to put the lives of so many civ...
DAVE MATTHEWS We don't have enough people going into those fields and there is a high burnout rate in some hea...
DAVE OBEY Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is th...
DAVE BARRY If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
DAVE BARRY The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes i...
DAVE BARRY I go to see some big shows of other bands, and I feel like I'm so bombarded and over-stimulated ...
DAVE GAHAN I'm tired of high policy talks. I want to focus on nuts and bolts.
DAVE FREUDENTHAL The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you're...
DAVE GROHL I played a homosexual bodyguard in 'The Last Detective,' and that was quite a pleasure to do...
DAVE LEGENO It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another perso...
DAVE BARRY The baby boomer surge is forcing society to face decisions about costs - and particularly what is va...
DAVE DEBRONKART Granted, a long book can be as daunting as a hard one. I nearly reached for 'Game of Thrones'...
DAVE MORRIS Joy comes from places you least expect it. It's usually the simple things, like watching my son ...
DAVE GAHAN If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to...
DAVE BARRY The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or...
DAVE BARRY The waves of love roll throughout the Universe, and overflow in our hearts..
Everything is ONE!
DAVE ZEBIAN I like the relaxed way in which the Japanese approach religion. I think of myself as basically a mor...
DAVE BARRY I'm so alive.

As I stand facing the beauty of the never-ending Pacific Ocean, a late afte...
DAVE PELZER 'Breaking Bad' and 'The Shield' were planned right from the start so that their narr...
DAVE MORRIS I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't thi...
DAVE MATTHEWS I want to make hand-held music, undiminished by the need to make everybody in the world listen at on...
DAVE SITEK We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.
DAVE FARBER We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless...
DAVE BARRY The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitutio...
DAVE BARRY There just isn’t enough cock in this world to be caught suckin’ and be called anything but a slu...
DAVE MATTHES ...you're either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church.
DAVE MATTHES I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.
DAVE BARRY That’s what books do. They are the building blocks, the DNA, if you will, of you. Think of everyth...
DAVE EGGERS I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to l...
DAVE EGGERS Quantity is what you count, quality is what you count on.
DAVE BARRY It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know ...
DAVE BARRY You had me at "We'll make it look like an accident."
DAVE BARRY Wear short sleeves! Support your right to bare arms!
DAVE BARRY I'd take a nerf bullet for you.
DAVE BARRY What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my car...
DAVE BARRY